9 Of The Hottest 'Game Of Thrones' Sex Scenes

Game of Thrones has a contentious relationship with sex. Every taboo topic - from incest to rape, statutory and otherwise (remember Margaery and a 12-year-old Tommen?) - has been covered in graphic, objectifying detail on the seven seasons that the show has been on air.

But that's not to say that none of the sex scenes in Game of Thrones are, actually, sexy. Some of them are... Very much so. And it's to those scenes that we will now turn.

1. Robb and Talisa, season two, episode eight

The tale of Robb and Talisa ultimately ended in big, fat, Red Wedding-size tears, but in episode eight of the season Robb was just a boy, standing in front of a girl, asking her to have floor sex with him. The pair had been building up to this moment from the first time Robb laid eyes on his healer wife from Volantis, and their brief relationship was full of very passionate, very sexy moments like this. Ah, what could have been.

2. Ygritte and Jon snow, season three, episode five

Things that Jon Snow knows nothing about: Women, dragons, when to leave a battle before you get other people killed.

Things that Jon Snow apparently does know a thing or two about: Oral sex.

3. Daenerys and Khal Drogo, season one, episode two

Daenerys' marriage to Khal Drogo began with rape. It's important to remember that, because even though the two came to love each other, respect each other, and were able to have consensual sex together, like in this episode in the first season, this doesn't negate the fact that their relationship (and Game of Thrones) began with rape.

"Well, Daenerys and Khal Drogo’s arranged marriage, and the customary rape that followed – ask George RR Martin why he did that, ’cause that’s on him," Emilia Clarke has said, of the rape scenes featuring her and actor Jason Momoa. "But I thought the consensual sex she has thereafter was genius. She is physically saying, 'You can’t rape me again. I’m going to be in control and show you something you’ve never seen before.’"

4. Daenerys and Daario, season five, episode seven

Let's remember a better sexual experience for Daenerys, namely, all the time she spends with Daario. Game of Thrones isn't big on romantic sex, which was why it was nice to see these two lovebirds get it on in season five. (That was before Daenerys leaves him back in some godforsaken castle in Mereen, of course).

5. Daenerys and Doreah, season one, episode two

It's Doreah, Daenerys' handmaiden and concubine to her brother Viserion, who schools Daenerys in the art of seduction in this very sexy scene.

6. Doreah and Viserion, season one, episode four

Doreah features in one more sex scene, and it's this one with the odious Viserion. The scene, which features the two of them in the bath, discussing the history of the Targaryen house, is hot and steamy right up until the moment that Viserion takes offence with something Doreah says and morphs back into the dickhead he has proven himself to be in previous episodes.

7. Theon and Ros, season one, episode five

Before Theon became Reek, he was the biggest lothario in Westeros. (Or second biggest, after Tyrion). And it was in his sex scenes with his beloved Northern prostitute Ros - and not that one time he was caught with his hand down his sister's trousers, poor Yara - that show just how sexy he could be.

8. Ros, Armeca and Littlefinger, season one, episode seven

Ros the prostitute ended up playing quite a significant role in Game of Thrones. She left Winterfell, making her way South to King's Landing, where she ended up Madam-In-Chief at Littlefinger's brothel. It was there, in her role, that she ended up an eye-witness to both the ritual murdering of King Robert Baratheon's many bastard children and to Prince Joffrey's cruelty, after Tyrion sends her to visit him in his chambers.

This scene, Ros' first in Littlefinger's brothel, is a very, very NSFW clip, where Ros pleasures another prostitute called Armeca, as Littlefinger shares the sorry tale of his doomed courtship of Lady Catelyn Stark.

"I learnt that I'll never win, not that way. That's their game, their rules. I'm not going to fight them. I'm going to fuck them. That's what I know, that's what I am. And only by admitting what we are can we get what we want," Littlefinger says, to the strains of Armeca's mounting orgasm. And what does Littlefinger want, Ros asks? "Everything, my dear. Everything there is." You don't say.

9. Oberyn, Ellaria and a whole bunch of other people, season four, episode three

Ah Oberyn, we miss you and your sexy Dornish ways. While we don't quite think of you as the ultimate Game of Thrones fuccboi like our friends over at The Cut, we do have to admit that you were fond of a romp between the sheets with your best girl Ellaria. (The woman you said was the love of your life, but never called your wife, hmmm). This orgy scene from season four is particularly memorable.

RIP Oberyn, we hope you're enjoying yourself up in the great orgy in the sky.